It is a faction that wishes to allign with the press, then influence this nation by its own system of business. Government is its business. When it is firmly established it will rule other businesses through taxation and regulation.
Taxation is a partnership with the government without any need of investment or fear of financial loss by the government.
If successful, this new government will be omnipotent and will have very little reason to be concerned for the people after it is established. After all, the only business that can put people in jail is government. A business cannot put a congressman in jail without going through the congressman's home turf and dealing with his allies.
This power is hard for the media types to ignore. That's why Carville gets the time.
Carville is also extremely popular ... not so much for his politics as just for being Serpenthead. You should have seen the reception he got from delegates at the 2000 REPUBLICAN convention. Everyone wanted to meet, talk to, and have their picture taken with Carville.
He's fun to watch (even if his politics are nuts), he's fun to listen to, thus he gets more time than Ed Gillespie, who is just another talking head. That's all that's going on here.
I think we're often too rough on Russert, and Matthews, Brokaw and everyone at NBC News in general. Sure, they're all liberals, but I have always seen them as being much fairer to conservatives by far than ABC or CBS, both of which are downright socialist. NBC treats us better than anyone else but Fox, and since NBC gets way more viewers cumulatively (the main network, MSNBC and CNBC added together) than FNC does, we ought to be cultivating them, not pushing them away.